Pinehurst No. 2

Pinehurst No. 2 is a Donald Ross design in Pinehurst, North Carolina, that opened in 1907 and remained Ross's own project for decades, since he lived on the property and kept reworking the course until his death in 1948. It is best known for its crowned, convex greens, which shed anything less than an accurate approach and leave golfers playing recovery shots from short grass rather than rough.

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw completed a restoration in 2011 that removed roughly 35 acres of rough and irrigation, returning the edges of the holes to sand, wiregrass and native scrub. The result looks much closer to the course Ross left behind, and it changed how the course plays: fairways are wider, misses are more varied, and the greens remain the defense.

No. 2 has hosted four U.S. Opens, in 1999, 2005, 2014 and 2024, along with the 1936 PGA Championship, the 1951 Ryder Cup and the 2014 U.S. Women's Open, which was played the week after the men's Open on the same course. The USGA has since named Pinehurst an anchor site and scheduled additional U.S. Opens there through 2047.